Sustainability

Our ambition and commitment: To be best in class and live by our DEI statement, building an inclusive and diverse culture.

We’re here to build the incredible at Funding Circle. We know we can only achieve this through an inclusive and diverse culture where Circlers of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, where they can contribute their ideas, have opportunities to be successful, and have their talents nurtured. Through empowering our people we are not only building something incredible for our customers, but an incredible place to work too.

Our approach, goals and progress, including on our gender pay gap and women in leadership, are set out in our annual report.

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Our ambition and commitment: To back a diverse and thriving SME customer base – creating jobs, fostering financial inclusion and having a positive impact on UK SMEs, entrepreneurs and their wider communities.

We value the contribution of SMEs to the economy, through the jobs they create and the potential multiplying effect they can have on wider society. Our lending helps businesses invest and scale up, and sustains local employment. We recognise the importance of financial inclusion – our borrowers sit at the heart of diverse communities, and the finance we provide supports SMEs in every corner of the UK.

We work with Oxford Economics each year to carry out an economic impact analysis focused on our efforts and the outcomes they drive. In 2024, Funding Circle’s Term Loans and FlexiPay lending supported 87,500 jobs, £7.2 billion in GDP, and helped businesses in every one of the 650 parliamentary constituencies.

SMEs are strategically vital to the fortunes of the UK economy, and we are proud to champion them. Our latest Economic Impact Report, produced in partnership with Oxford Economics examines the vital role small businesses play in our economy.

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We support the wider SME ecosystem. Through our multi-year partnership with Hatch Enterprise, we are empowering underrepresented entrepreneurs to imagine, launch and grow sustainable and impactful businesses through tailored support, community and partnerships. Volunteers from Funding Circle have provided mentoring support to over 200 founders since September 2022.

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Funding Circle is also a proud signatory to HM Treasury’s Investing in Women Code, a commitment from the financial services industry which was launched in 2019 to improve female entrepreneurs' access to tools, resources and finances.

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Our ambition and commitment: We are committed to upholding the highest standards of corporate governance and risk management.

Funding Circle is a participant of the United Nations Global Compact and the UN Global Compact Network UK, and adheres to their principles-based approach to responsible business on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. We publish our Communication on Progress annually.

More detail on our corporate governance, risk management, and our climate disclosures consistent with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) can be found in our annual report

We are members of the UN Global Compact Network UK

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Governance and ESG framework

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We are included in the FTSE4Good Index

Funding Circle policies and statements